Kanon Is Big, Getting Bigger, and on the Extreme Right

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i started polling on this in florida in late summer of 20 18. After a few cuanon folks wore their regalia to a trump ralley in tampa, and there was a flurry of coverage about it. Now we've continued that style of polling with the feeling thermometers im both in florIDA and nation wide,. And have found no increases, at least through october. But we of last year, but we don't have any reason to think it's gone up since then.

When we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.